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April 20, 2016
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
And this comes less than three weeks after the Blackhawks announced a partnership with the You Can Play Project (who the NHL also have a partnership with).
I know it's almost certainly not going to happen, but he needs to be suspended now, not at the beginning of next season. And it should come down from the team, not the League.
posted by Ufez Jones at 01:10 PM on April 20, 2016
Even without the yelling of the slur from the penalty box, he was being outrageously disrespectful of the on-ice officials by yelling at them and giving them a double-barrelled bird while still on the ice. I know it's bad form to eject someone from a playoff game, but come on man, how can let this player show you up like this on the friggin' ice? Then you throw in the homophobic slur? Yeah, I'm with Ufez on this; the dude should be gone.
posted by NoMich at 01:28 PM on April 20, 2016
It's official. One game suspension for the slur. $5000 fine for the birds.
posted by MrFrisby at 04:36 PM on April 20, 2016
Dude is gone, for one game, which hopefully is the rest of the Blackhawks season.
And, $5,000 for the double-barreled bird.
As MrFrisby just noted a moment before my post...
posted by tommybiden at 04:37 PM on April 20, 2016
Cleveland Browns have traded their #2 pick to the Eagles for what seems at first glance like another tidy haul. Have to go see how it stacks up against what the Titans got for the top pick.
Does anyone have a cumulative tally of the trading cost/value embedded in this year's top 2 picks?
Coverage of the NFL Draft now encompasses so many weeks of the annual calendar that it has become a season unto itself. Teams could embark on a "tank and trade" strategy, whereby they suck in the fall but are the talk of the town and lords of all they survey in the spring.
posted by beaverboard at 05:45 PM on April 20, 2016
Andrew Shaw On Apparent Video of Him Shouting Gay Slur At Official: "I Don't Know What I Said"